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The Diaspora of a Disconnected Church
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Sean O’Conaill, in a recent letter to the Irish Times, questions that paper’s continued use of the term ‘Catholic Church’ as if that term is describing a unitary entity instead of a much divided reality. The Irish Times refused to publish the letter. It is published on this website (below) to access the response of our readers to the issue.
Women deacons - when will we know?
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The Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research wonders when Pope Francis’ Study Commission on The Women’s Diaconate (set up in August 2016) is going to report back and be published and if Cardinal Ladaria is right that it is impossible for the Catholic Church to ordain women to the priesthood or permanent diaconate.
Deacons: clericalised laymen?
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Aidan Hart laments the 'clericalisation of the laity' in the apparent intended role for nine new deacons in the diocese of Down and Connor.
Erring Shepherds - Aidan Hart
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Aidan surveys the spate of Catholic scandals that began in 1985, and calls for the global Catholic Church to be returned to the ownership of its lay people.
Marie Collins asks Pope Francis to explain bishop accountability process: NCR
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Irish abuse survivor asks to meet with Pope to 'understand better' the process whereby Catholic bishops are to be made accountable for handling clerical abuse.
Pope Francis brings papacy to ground level in Ireland, August 2018
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In August 2018 the humanity and fallibility of the papacy was starkly revealed to an Ireland in need of healing and hope - and home-grown leadership.
Has Richard Sipe explained the cover-up of clerical child sex abuse in the Catholic Church?
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In linking the cover-up of clerical paedophilia to the Catholic hierarchy's determination to preserve the appearance of clerical celibacy, Richard Sipe (who died on August 8th, 2018) is increasingly persuasive.
Christendom is over - in Ireland too, thank God?
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Does Bishop Leo O'Reilly's homily in Knock on June 17th, 2018, mark an important shift in the Irish Catholic Church's thinking on the state?
Future Families Report - June 2018
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The ACI Future Families conference report calls for recognition of the families who feel marginalised and unwanted by the Church.
Emerging Christianity
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Philip McParland sees a new kind of Christianity emerging, ushered in by Richard Rohr, Brian McLaren and others - a 'spiritual path' rather than a 'belief and belonging system'.
The Diaspora of a Disconnected Church
Women deacons - when will we know?
Deacons: clericalised laymen?
Erring Shepherds - Aidan Hart
Marie Collins asks Pope Francis to explain bishop accountability process: NCR
Pope Francis brings papacy to ground level in Ireland, August 2018
Has Richard Sipe explained the cover-up of clerical child sex abuse in the Catholic Church?
Christendom is over - in Ireland too, thank God?
Future Families Report - June 2018
Emerging Christianity
Dear Bishops, We write in the aftermath of the visit of Pope Francis. It was a strange few days. On the one hand, the palpable delight of...
'The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better' Fr. Richard Rohr - Emerging Church ...statistically Catholicism is still the biggest religion.
"Starting out, I never dreamed I would fall foul of Rome." Fr Gerry Moloney tells of his disillusionment with an institution that acts unjustly.
“The homeless and housing crisis is the biggest social problem that Ireland has faced in a generation,” argues Fr. Peter McVerry SJ. He calls for support...
How Pope Francis stays happy in spite of criticism - and what he said about clericalism to Irish Jesuits on August 25th, 2018.
Respected Catholic commentator, John Allen, believes that the February 2019 summit of bishops in Rome could be critical for the present papacy.
NCR columnist links US Catholic opposition to Pope Francis to the tendency of wealthy US Catholics to reject the Gospel protest against favouring those with wealth.
Trinity College, Dublin, to hear more on the worldwide struggle for the just representation of women in the Christian and other religious traditions.
The USA's premier Catholic reformist journal argues that the present crisis for Pope Francis is 'make or break' for his papacy.
ACI calls on Pope Francis to accept Vatican responsibility for the failures of so many bishops, and to respond to Cardinal O'Malley's call for strong action.
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